(Jewish Group) Anti-Semitism must be called out

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(THIS IS THE JEWISH GROUP! RESPECT!!)

It is scary to see anti-Semitism on the rise around the world once again. A recent CNN poll found anti-Semitic stereotypes are alive and well in Europe, while the memory of the Holocaust is starting to fade. “More than a quarter of Europeans polled believe Jews have too much influence in business and finance. Nearly one in four said Jews have too much influence in conflict and wars across the world. One in five said they have too much influence in the media and the same number believe they have too much influence in politics.”

“A third of Europeans in the poll said they knew just a little or nothing at all about the Holocaust, the mass murder of some six million Jews in lands controlled by Adolf Hitler’s Nazi regime in the 1930s and 1940s. Lack of Holocaust knowledge is particularly striking among young people in France: One out of five people there between the ages of 18 and 34 said they’d never heard of it.”

According to the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) “After the Paris terror attacks on Charlie Hebdo and a kosher grocery, much attention has focused on growing numbers of French Jews leaving France for Israel and increasing anti-Semitism in Europe.” Today we see the word ‘Juden’ painted in red across the window of bagel store in Paris and in the United States hear Louis Farrakhan say, “the powerful Jews are my enemy. White folks are going down. And Satan is going down. And Farrakhan, by God’s grace, has pulled the cover off of that Satanic Jew and I’m here to say your time is up, your world is through.”

I am a first generation American Jew who grew up in a Jewish neighborhood in Washington Heights, a community in New York City. My mother, born in Vienna, Austria, fled the Nazis at 14 with my grandmother going to London for two years before immigrating to New York. Her father finally got out and met them there. My father escaped the Nazis from Hamburg, Germany, getting the last boat to New York. He had to leave his parents behind and they were rounded up by the Nazis and gassed in Auschwitz. Growing up in Washington Heights it seemed everyone around me was Jewish. I never knew what anti-Semitism was until I heard the word ‘Kike’ at the age of 13 on a Boy Scout trip across the country. I didn’t know then what it meant.

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